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The Real Exchange Rate and Foreign Direct Investment in the United States : Relative Wealth vs. Relative Wage Effects

Klein, Michael W. - 2010

significantly affects U.S. inward foreign direct investment. We find no evidence that relative wages have a significant impact on …

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Wage Dispersion between and within U.S. Manufacturing Plants, 1963-1986

Davis, Stephen J. - 2010

This paper exploits a rich and largely untapped source of information on the wages and other characteristics of …

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Wage Effects of Unionization and Occupational Licensing Coverage in the United States

Gittleman, Maury - 2013

Recent estimates in standard models of wage determination for both unionization and occupational licensing have shown wage effects that are similar across the two institutions. These cross-sectional estimates use specialized data sets, with small sample sizes, for the period 2006 through 2008....

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The Causal Effect of Unemployment Duration on Wages : Evidence from Unemployment Insurance Extensions

Schmieder, Johannes F. - 2013

This paper provides quasi-experimental estimates of the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Using … standard job search theory, the paper derives and tests conditions on reemployment wages under which Unemployment Insurance (UI … paper shows that UI extensions at age thresholds reduced reemployment wages of job searchers in Germany. The UI extensions …

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Stepping Off the Wage Escalator : The Effects of Wage Growth on Equilibrium Employment

Elsby, Michael - 2010

This paper emphasizes the role of wage growth in shaping work incentives. It provides an analytical framework for labor supply in the presence of a return to labor market experience and aggregate productivity growth. A key finding of the theory is that there is an interaction between these two...

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International Trade and Labor Income Risk in the United States

Krishna, Pravin - 2009

This paper studies empirically the links between international trade and labor income risk faced by workers in the United States. We use longitudinal data on workers to estimate time-varying individual income risk at the industry level. We then combine our estimates of persistent labor income...

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Immigrants' Complementarities and Native Wages : Evidence from California

Peri, Giovanni - 2007

demand and wages of most U.S. native workers …

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Why Has CEO Pay Increased so Much?

Gabaix, Xavier - 2006

This paper develops a simple equilibrium model of CEO pay. CEOs have different talents and are matched to firms in a competitive assignment model. In market equilibrium, a CEO%u2019s pay changes one for one with aggregate firm size, while changing much less with the size of his own firm. The...

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The Value of Working Conditions in the United States and Implications for the Structure of Wages

Maestas, Nicole - 2018

This paper documents variation in working conditions among workers in the United States, presents new estimates of how workers value these conditions, and assesses the impact of working conditions on estimates of the wage structure and inequality. We use evidence from a series of...

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Vacancy Durations and Entry Wages : Evidence from Linked Vacancy-Employer-Employee Data

Kettemann, Andreas - 2018

This paper explores the relationship between the duration of a vacancy and the starting wage of a new job, using linked data on vacancies, the posting establishments and the workers eventually filling the vacancies. The unique combination of large-scale, administrative worker-, establishment-...

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